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LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation. When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation. Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements. The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

In 1942, C.S. Lewis issued a chilling warning: an obsession with "perfect equality" would eventually destroy human greatness. In a world where no one is allowed to be better than anyone else, the best and brightest are cut down to size. Lewis predicted a future where: -Education is leveled to mediocrity to avoid hurting feelings. -The Middle Class is hollowed out, removing the primary champions of private excellence. -"Avoiding trauma" becomes the excuse to stop pushing students to their full potential Lewis saw that when the State takes over education, it becomes more of a nursery than an academic institution. Is Lewis’s dystopia already here?

plastic recycling is one of the most successful corporate frauds in history and everyone fell for it in the 1980s the plastic industry faced regulation that would've killed their business their solution was to spend $50 million convincing you that recycling would fix everything, while their own internal documents proved they knew only <10% of plastic was recyclable they lied deliberately. with documentation. the results of their fraud: - 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled. total. in 70 years - 450 million tons produced annually - 130 million tons entering the environment every year - microplastics in your blood, your brain, your testicles, your children but here's where it becomes genuinely evil wealthy countries "recycle" by shipping 50-60% of their waste to developing nations. UK exports to poor countries rose 84% last year what happens when it arrives? nothing no infrastructure. 70% ends up in open dumps, burned in fields, or carried by rivers into the ocean you sorted your bottles. you felt virtuous. and a container ship carried your garbage to a village in indonesia where children play next to mountains of western plastic waste that will poison their water supply for generations that's what your recycling bin does. it launders your guilt while exporting ecological destruction to people too poor to refuse the plastic industry didn't solve pollution. they didn't even try. they spent $50 million making it your fault and your problem, then shipped the consequences to the third world and it worked. for 40 years. while they made trillions every executive who signed off on this belongs in prison. every document they buried should be evidence at trial. this wasn't negligence. it was calculated, documented, deliberate poisoning of the planet for profit but instead they'll retire rich and you'll keep sorting bottles that end up in the ocean anyway

The way the league used to handle gambling issues

@FrankLevesque @AdamNutter @Steve_Perrault Correct. Force play at min. It was a nice gesture

@AdamNutter @Steve_Perrault First base was open with the winning run on second with one out. They should’ve intentionally walked him to set up a double play.

11 years ago today Derek Jeter was grooved a pitch as every Orioles players involved here allowed the Yankees to walk them off.

Correct. Cool gesture is what it was

@arikaplan1 @Steve_Perrault One out, winning run on 2nd, first base open. You walk him and put the double play in order- at min create a force out somewhere, if you want to win. Pretty sure a bottom of the bullpen arm was put in to face him. It was a nice gesture.

@Steve_Perrault I was with the Orioles front office at the time. We wanted to win the game. No conspiracy

@Steve_Perrault Correct

@BrianRoemmele ❤️

Please I implore you. Think, please.

@naval The actual political lines are "Accountable People" and "Unaccountable People"

One state ***increased*** its reading literacy for the bottom 10% of students while 49 other states let standards keep slipping. It was the poorest state in the country, Mississippi. In 2013 they enacted a rule where at 4th grade if you can’t read, you repeat until you can.

@gaulicsmith @naval said it best

Besides a fit body, what else can only be achieved through hard work and cannot be bought or given to you ?

Still the best

Guy who tries adderall “This is great, I definitely have this disease.”

@KevinRothWx “Cult” is crazy. Nobody knows if it was a poor idea/poorly executed unless bias or a fortune teller. He was put in office to put America first, this is what it looks like. “Delayed gratification is the greatest indicator of success”

I am looking for one Trump voter to admit the tariffs were a poor idea / poorly executed. I don’t need a majority, just one. One single person to help give me some faith that the entire cult hasn’t lost their minds. Please.

Re: climate hoax

@SwingEveryday Coach. Good stuff. What is on top of the cardboard in the 2nd drill?

Winterball 2025 is in the books. Here’s all the favorite outfield drills in one place. Thanks to my outfielders for the work. @bstrach10 @bkaelin06 @NickReed_12 @Camdenrogers68 @bess_jayden

Nietzsche, go for a walk

Is our pursuit of greatness leaving us dissatisfied?

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